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22-time Grammy Award winner performed a medley of his greatest hits — including the Drake diss track “Not Like Us” — for the halftime show at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday.Samuel L. Jackson as “Uncle Sam” introduced Lamar at the start of the performance.The rapper wore a blue jacket with a black shirt, black backwards hat and blue jeans for the start of his performance.

Super Bowl halftime show, the “God’s Plan” rapper seemingly waved the white flag on their battle in his new song, “Gimme a Hug.”“F–k a rap beef, I’m tryna get the party lit/Tryna get the party lit for the bitches,” he raps on the track from “$ome $exy $ongs 4 U,” his album with Partynextdoor that dropped on Friday.After nearly a year of going toe-to-toe with Lamar, Drake wants to be a lover, not a fighter.Having come out on the losing end of the battle, Drake acknowledges that some have relished in leaving him for dead — but that he is still very much alive and kicking.“Drake elimination, fake intimidation/Take a minute, take a deep breath, have a little bit of patience/Drizzy, you amazin’, you the inspiration/You set the bar for the next generation/,” he raps to open “Gimme a Hug.”“You Neo in The Matrix, these other n—-s just Nemo in the ocean/Small fish, making kids feel emotion/Using you for promotion,” he raps, possibly alluding to Lamar using Drake for gain.Later, he continues to address the talk of his demise: “N—-s want to see RIP me on a T-shirt like I’m Hulk Hogan/I appreciate the fans rocking with me, this is just a small token.”Drake makes it clear that he is far from done despite all the shots taken at him: “‘Cause I’m really out here, filling up the itinerary ’til I’m six feet in the cemetery/Bulletproof doors so heavy, got me rollin’ ‘round like a dignitary.“Funny how it’s only bitch n—-s that are waiting on the boy’s obituary/‘Cause if I die, it’s these n—-s that become the sole beneficiary/And what the f–k are they gon’ do with it?”He then gives love to 21 Savage for supporting him through the onslaught of Drake hate: “Savage, you the only n—a checkin’ on me when we really in some s–t, brother.”Last

Kendrick Lamar’s 2025 Super Bowl performance by changing a lyric in his song “Knife Talk” at his concert in Melbourne, Australia on Monday.In footage from the show, Drake rapped, “Beef is live, spoiler alert — I never died.”But the original lyrics to the song are, “Beef is live, spoiler alert — this n – – – a dies.”“Knife Talk” came out in 2021 as part of Drake’s album “Certified Lover Boy.”The lyric change happened one day after Lamar, 37, went after Drake during the Super Bowl halftime show in New Orleans.

sang his Drake diss track “Not Like Us” at the 2025 Super Bowl on Sunday — and that’s not the only way he insulted his rival during the halftime performance.Lamar’s outfit for the show included a massive “a” chain necklace, which appeared to be a nod to his “A minor” lyric from “Not Like Us.”During his performance at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, he sang the full line (“Tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A minor”) that calls out Drake, 38, for allegedly having sex with underage women .The crowd at the stadium sang along for the “A minor” part.Lamar did, however, omit the word “pedophile” from his line “Certified Lover Boy? Certified pedophiles,” which is about Drake and his 2021 album “Certified Lover Boy.”For the halftime show, Lamar also rocked a blue jacket that read “Gloria” across the front in big letters, a black shirt, blue jeans and a black hat.He had Samuel L. Jackson, who was dressed as “Uncle Sam,” emcee the show.

Super Bowl LIX on Sunday.The Kansas City Chiefs will face-off against the Philadelphia Eagles once again at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.Louisiana artist Jon Batiste sang the National Anthem while Ledisi performed “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”Kendrick Lamar, meanwhile, is set to take the stage during the highly-anticipated halftime show.“We’re honored to work with this year’s pregame lineup to celebrate the rich musical legacy of New Orleans and the entire state,” Seth Dudowsky, head of music at the NFL, said in statement. “The Super Bowl is a rare moment to unite fans around the world, and this year’s performers will bring the energy, soul and vibrant sounds of the region to a global stage, as we kick off Super Bowl LIX with a celebration to remember.”Daigle’s performance in NOLA comes years after New Orleans Mayor, LaToya Cantrell, called for her to be removed as a performer when the city hosted “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Celebration.”Earlier this month, the Grammy winner appeared on the “Arroyo Grande” podcast and explained why she feels vindicated as she prepares to perform on one of the biggest stages yet.“To get this moment years later, I would say for anybody watching that has had their reputations smeared in any sort of way and they are just waiting for the moment of vindication, sometimes it only takes five years,” Daigle said.In 2020, Cantrell publicly chastised Daigle after the singer gave an impromptu concert at an outdoor prayer service, hosted by Christian worship leader Sean Feucht.The event was part of Feucht’s “Let Us Worship” tour, which was also a protest against COVID-19 restrictions on churches.

Beyoncé performed several hits from her “Cowboy Carter” album alongside Post Malone and Shaboozey — but when she made a particular move, viewers at home lost their cool.While singing “Texas Hold ‘Em,” the singer lifted her right hand and made the controversial gun gesture with two fingers. At the same time, a banner with the word “BANG” was released behind Beyoncé.The National Football League bans the gesture, which results in a 15-yard penalty for any offending player, per Daily Mail.The combination infuriated viewers, who unloaded their grievances on social media.“Is the @NFL going to fine @Beyonce for finger guns?!” one angry watcher shared on X (formerly Twitter).

Kendrick Lamar’s highly anticipated halftime show in the Big Easy next year.Grammy-winning singer Jon Batiste, 38, Christian recording artist Lauren Daigle, 33, R&B vocalist Ledisi, 52, and jazz musician Trombone Shorty, 38, have been added to the lineup for Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Feb. 9.The NFL and Roc Nation announced the news on Thursday, Nov.

Instagram, as well.A post shared by Kendrick Lamar (@kendricklamar)“Rap music is still the most impactful genre to date. And I’ll be there to remind the world why. They got the right one,” the rapper said in a statement, according to Billboard.The 2025 Super Bowl will take place Feb.

under fire. Fans on social media suspect Alicia Keys’ vocals were pitch-corrected in Usher’s full Super Bowl Halftime show posted to the NFL’s YouTube channel. Keys, 43, made a steamy cameo Sunday during the “Yeah!” singer’s set, starting at the piano with her 2003 hit “If I Ain’t Got You, but her voice cracked on one of the first notes out of her mouth.

commercials kept it light and funny and Usher delivered an energetic halftime performance. Pop princess Taylor Swift, 34, was in attendance to cheer on her boyfriend, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, 34, as his team ultimately beat the San Francisco 49ers 25 to 22.One of her friends, rapper Ice Spice, didn’t seem to know what was happening on the field, and the two women mingling with Travis’ NFL player brother, Jason Kelce, made for an unlikely combination of celebs. All of this created fertile ground for memes.

was the special guest of the Black Eyed Peas — the freaking Black Eyed Peas — when the “I Gotta Feeling” foursome headlined the Super Bowl XLV halftime show in 2011.How will.i.am, Fergie and crew could ever relegate Usher to a backup role on the biggest stage in music is enough to make anybody go “OMG”?But 13 years after Usher swooped in and upstaged the Peas, justice was finally served when the singer had his own career moment on Sunday.This time around — midway through the showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas — it was will.i.am.

Usher has got it bad for his longtime love Jennifer Goicoechea.The pair might be headed to a little white chapel following his Super Bowl 2024 halftime show performance in Las Vegas on Sunday.According to the Daily Mail, the “Love in This Club” singer, 45, and Goicoechea, 39, obtained a marriage license in Sin City on Feb. 8.The “Faculty” actor and Goicoechea — who have been together since 2018 — will reportedly have a small ceremony with just close friends and family in attendance.The couple share two children together — daughter Sovereign Bo, 3, and son Sire Castrello, 2.Usher’s newest album, “Coming Home,” was released on Friday.

Having already performed on the Super Bowl stage as a special guest of the Black Eyed Peas in 2011, Usher is no stranger to the halftime show. But it is another former headliner whom the 45-year-old singer has taken particular inspiration from going into Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Sunday night.That would be his longtime hero, Michael Jackson, who forever changed the halftime show — turning it into the biggest gig in music — when he put the “superstar” in the Super Bowl.“He absolutely revolutionized the experience like no other,” Usher told The Post.“He changed how people perceived the halftime show [because before Jackson] it was just kind of hiring, you know, local performers or whatever it might be … I really did respect that.”And Usher plans to honor Jackson’s historic moment when he follows in his legendary footsteps midway through Sunday’s showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers.“It became a great inspiration behind some of the things that I chose to do with this show,” he said.Of course, Usher — who made his self-titled debut 30 years ago as a 15-year-old — has three decades of his own experience to draw from as well.But the man behind such chart-topping hits as “Nice & Slow,” “U Remind Me,” “Yeah!” and “Love in This Club” says that it won’t be all about him when he headlines the biggest stage of all.“This has been a moment that is a celebration — not just for myself but for 30 years of people who have supported me, supported my journey, supported my choice of conversation,” said Usher.

Super Bowl LVIII headliner on Sunday — when the Kansas City Chiefs tackle the San Francisco 49ers — it just might be a pretty unlikely one: Kim Kardashian.Usher’s “My Way” residency at the Dolby Live inside the Park MGM — which wrapped in December after 17 months and 100 shows — made him the biggest stud in Sin City.His sold-out run turned the 45-year-old superstar into a natural choice to lead the mid-game throwdown at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.But before Taylor Swift had even met Travis Kelce, Kardashian proved just how powerful of a woman she is after Usher serenaded the mogul for all of social media to see in April 2023.Usher’s sexy residency went on to become the ultimate girls’ trip destination.And Jay-Z and his Roc Nation company — producers of the halftime show since 2019 — couldn’t deny the obvious after Usher was practically serenading the panties off everybody from Keke Palmer to Janelle Monáe.But Kim K. is a big reason why we’ll all be going “Yeah!” on Sunday.“I think everybody was in some way trying to figure out how to get out there and have that experience that we were working on in Las Vegas because of the serenade,” Usher told The Post.“It seemed like the place to go to celebrate with your friends, take your girls, have a good time.

“Bitch Better Have My Money.”But now that Ri-Ri is a mommy of two, it’s more like “Babies Better Have My Forehead.”While you might think that the “Umbrella” singer would be more interested in passing on all those musical genes from her and rapper partner A$AP Rocky to their two sons — RZA, 19 months, and Riot, 4 months — she’s most concerned about carrying on her forehead in the family.“The only thing I imagined was probably the forehead on RZA,” Rihanna, 35, told “Access Hollywood” when asked about her visions of motherhood at the Los Angeles relaunch of her Fenty x Puma Creeper sneaker line on Monday night.“Riot doesn’t have it. I’m like, ‘Wait, are you sure?’”she added with a laugh.

They don’t love it. Jack Harlow has been mercilessly mocked for his performance at the Lions-Packers NFL game in Detroit on Thursday night, with one fan scathingly saying the singer singlehandedly “ruined Thanksgiving.”The musician, 25, took to the field to belt out several of his hit tracks as part of his highly-anticipated halftime gig — but viewers were roundly unimpressedThe lackluster appearance was described by Barstool Sports as “one of the worst halftime performances your eyes will ever see.”Social media pundits similarly slammed the singer’s off-pitch performance, his bizarre backup dancer, and budget set.

debuted on Amazon Music and Audible on Thursday — details how the King of Pop pored over market research in which people would make harsh comments about his looks and idiosyncrasies.“He wanted to know … I would take stacks of surveys, and some things that you or I would not be able to take as a human being — he took it all in,” said Dan Beck, who, as an executive at Epic Records, began working with Jackson right before the release of his 1991 album “Dangerous.”“At that time, some of the non-musical issues were surfacing, some of the tabloid stuff — you know, plastic surgery, all that stuff. And we were very, very concerned about these things getting in the way of Michael’s music.”“There was a concern that pop radio would turn on Michael because he was just too weird to be a pop star,” added Jay Smooth, who co-hosts “Think Twice” with Leon Neyakh.As sales of “Dangerous” were plummeting — by his lofty standards — at the beginning of 1993, Jackson set out to change “the weirdo narrative,” as Smooth describes it.“Michael and his team wanted to wash all that away and replace it with the idea that he was not just a generational talent but a historic artist in a lineage with the greats,” said Smooth.As part of that concerted “myth-making campaign,” as Smooth describes it, Jackson gave high-profile performances at Bill Clinton’s presidential inauguration gala and at the American Music Awards, where he was given the International Artist Award of Excellence — an honor that he personally negotiated for with the producers.

Super Bowl Halftime Show performance drew in over 112 million viewers – some of whom couldn’t handle her sexy dance moves. Outraged fans complained about the pregnant 35-year-old’s show to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), arguing her production was full of sexualized choreography and lyrics.TMZ got ahold of 103 complaints from angry viewers who moaned about the “Lift Me Up” singer’s Feb.

youngest self-made billionaire, fashion mogul and mom, just to name a few.But she hasn’t forgotten about the one that made her famous: popstar.In a new interview for British Vogue’s March cover story, Rihanna, 34, opened up about motherhood, her Super Bowl gig and the ever-present question of new music on the horizon.The Barbadian singer hasn’t released an album since “ANTI” in 2016, and confessed in the new interview that there’s a lot of “pressure” to put out a follow-up record, saying “that if it’s not better than that then it is not even worth it.”“I realized that if I keep waiting until this feels right and perfect and better, maybe it’s going to keep taking forever and maybe it’ll never come out and no, I’m not down to that. So I want to play.

“Nipplegate” discourse surrounding the infamous 2004 Super Bowl halftime show featuring Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake.On a recent episode of his podcast, “Let’s Go!” with Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Gray where the co-hosts were discussing Rihanna’s halftime show from Super Bowl 2023 — which saw the Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Philadelphia Eagles — Brady was asked whether the NFL players participating in the big game are able to watch the show.Brady, 45, admitted that the players are typically too focused on the game to pay attention — and brought up Jackson’s areola-flashing wardrobe malfunction as an example — saying that it was “probably a good thing for the NFL.”“[Reporters] were asking me about that, and I couldn’t even understand what they were telling me about,” Brady recalled. “They were like, ‘Did you see the halftime show?’ and I said, ‘Nah, I didn’t see anything.’ I was thinking about the game and was trying to figure out halftime adjustments.”“It took a while for us to figure out what had gone on. That’s for the fans and not for the players,” he added.The recently retired quarterback led the New England Patriots to victory over the Carolina Panthers at the Super Bowl XXXVIII and won the game’s MVP award, but what’s remembered most was the halftime performance featuring Jackson, Timberlake, Diddy, Nelly, Kid Rock and Jessica Simpson.AdvertisementThe halftime show ended with an infamous moment when Timberlake exposed Jackson’s breast while performing “Rock Your Body.”“I think, in the end, it was probably a good thing for the NFL because everyone got to talk about it, and it was just more publicity and more publicity for halftime shows,” Brady said.

according to CNBC.The youngster is already highly accomplished, having been part of the USA team that went to the 2021-2022 Deaflympics in Brazil, where she won a silver medal as part of the 4×100 women’s track relay team. She was also the valedictorian at the Model Secondary School for the Deaf in Washington, DC, according to the National Association of the Deaf.the sign language interpreter is not fking around pic.twitter.com/zezhJ0QTsI“I value the opportunity to make it possible for all deaf people to enjoy these songs, and not have them miss out on the full Super Bowl experience,” Miles told CNBC’s “Make It” prior to the Super Bowl.“(It’s) not only for me to share this experience with the whole world, but to really bring that empowerment to millions and millions of black deaf people all over the country who’ve never really seen that before.